Upcoming change to the Notify field for some documents

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

Working group chairs and IESG members -

The next release of the datatracker will contain the first steps towards 
changing how a working group list gets copied when an AD enters a ballot 
position.
Once that release is in place, I will be running a script that will 
scrub working group lists out of the Notify fields where they occur (276 
documents at the moment).
This is part of addressing the issue that several of you are 
experiencing with mail sent to the .all alias for a document going into 
moderation at your group's list because of an implicit destination.

That script will email the WG personnel (chairs, shepherds, ads) to let 
them know what got changed.
Below, you'll find an example of what will be sent to the personnel for 
one of the groups with the largest count of affected documents.
Please read the text of the example - it explains the history leading up 
to this change in a little more detail.

If you do not want the documents for your working group to be changed, 
reply to me ASAP (and be sure to copy your AD),
and I will exclude your group from what the script will work on.

If all goes well with the upcoming release, I expect to run this script 
late in the day tomorrow.

RjS

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EXAMPLE MESSAGE FOLLOWS
(this is only an example - these changes have not yet been made to the 
production database)
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To: <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, 
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Removed the working group list address from the Notify field of 
22 mpls drafts

The Notify field for the documents listed at the end of this message 
were changed by removing the mpls mailing list address '[e-mail]'.

For most documents, this address was introduced to the Notify field 
between November 2014 and March 2015 as part of the default value 
assigned when the document entered IESG processing. This was a first try 
at ensuring the working group sees ballot positions as the ADs enter 
them. However, it had several unintended consequences. In particular, 
since the contents of the Notify field are expanded into each document's 
.all alias, messages sent by individuals to the .all alias often ended 
in the list's moderation queue for having an implicit destination.

Instead, the datatracker has been modified to send ballot positions to 
the working group list explicitly, under the balloting AD's control, and 
we are scrubbing the list addresses from the Notify fields.

If you had included the working group list address in the Notify field 
for some reason other than it showing up by default during the above 
period, please use the datatracker to put it back into the field (or ask 
the secretariat to do so for you), and accept our apologies for the 
inconvenience.

The affected documents for mpls appear below:
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-ipv6/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-reply-mode-simple/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-seamless-mpls/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-mpls-tp-oam-conf/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kompella-mpls-rsvp-ecmp/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-seamless-mcast/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-tp-oam-id-mib/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cheng-mpls-tp-shared-ring-protection/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7510/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ravisingh-mpls-el-for-seamless-mpls/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-proxy-lsp-ping/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-mldp-node-protection/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mirsky-mpls-residence-time/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kompella-mpls-larp/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-esale-mpls-app-aware-tldp/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bonica-mpls-self-ping/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-decraene-mpls-lsp-ping-registry/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-oam-ipv6-rao/
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kompella-mpls-rmr/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-registry/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-entropy-lsp-ping/